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Considering the kind of scruffy, backwoods, uneducated, Deep-South hillbilly types he played, many people would be surprised to hear that Ken Curtis wasn't actually born in the south but in the small town of Las Animas, Colorado, the son of the town sheriff. They would probably be even more surprised to learn that he began his show business career as a singer in the big-band era, and was a vocalist in the legendary Tommy Dorsey orchestra. He entered films in the late 1940s at the tail-end of the singing-cowboy period in a series of low-budget Westerns for Columbia Pictures. When that genre died out, Curtis turned to straight dramatic and comedy parts and became a regular in the films of director John Ford (who was his father-in-law). Curtis branched out into film production in the 1950s with two extremely low-budget monster films, The Killer Shrews (1959) and The Giant Gila Monster (1959), but he is best known for his long-running role as Festus Hagen, the scruffy, cantankerous deputy in the long-running TV series Gunsmoke (1955).- Editor
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Albrecht Joseph was born on 20 November 1901 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an editor and writer, known for I Was a Criminal (1945), Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). He died on 28 April 1991 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Steve Broidy (born Samuel Broidy) was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and attended Boston University. His entrance into the film business was as a salesman for an independent company in 1925, and he moved to Universal Pictures in 1926 and then Warner Bros. in 1931. He was hired by Monogram Pictures in 1933 as a sales manager, and by 1940 was on the board of directors as VP and general sales manager. By 1945 he had been named President. Broidy presided over Monogram during its metamorphosis into Allied Artists, a change that came about because he believed that the Monogram name had for too long been associated with low-budget, low-quality productions, and he wanted to upgrade the company's reputation. He remained president until 1965, when he left to become an independent producer. In 1962 he was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Dolly Reagan was born in 1919 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was married to Percy Pape and Pappy Reagan. She died on 28 April 1991 in Gibsonton, Florida, USA.
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Lee Wulff was born on 10 February 1905 in Valdez, Alaska, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Newfoundland Sea Birds (1959), Newfoundland Trailer Trip (1964) and A Double in Bluefins (1959). He was married to Joan Salvado, Kay Wulf, Ella Manuel and Helen Riha. He died on 28 April 1991 in Hancock, New York, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Nicola Manzari was born on 14 November 1908 in Bari, Puglia, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Una notte dopo l'opera (1942), Quarta pagina (1942) and Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956). He died on 28 April 1991 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.